I think it’s time to address why the Chicago Jesus suddenly went Gay for Pay. I’m happy to provide that analysis to you :) It turns out it’s more Gay for Pay, a Legacy and a Job After I’m Fired. […]
[I]t dawned on me–Obama’s internal polls must show him losing to Romney, and handily. The latest Rasmussen certainly show the Golfer-in-Chief in trouble and behind the GOP nom. He must realize it’s over and is now simply looking to establish his “legacy,” while reinforcing leftist relationships he desperately wants to keep–like with Hollywood–after we kick his ass to the curb. For an obsessed, cynical and narcissistic president like Obama, he only makes moves that serve his agenda one way or another–and the only upside to this exists out of the White House. Liberal gays will vote for him anyway, and 1 in 6 of his top bundlers have already raised $500,000+ for him. I believe he’s frantic to not have his legacy be the truth–one of disaster brought by narcissism and incompetence, he hopes this sort of story, covers like Newsweek, will be the thing that allows him to walk away at least within his liberal/leftist base as not a complete pariah.[…]
Obama’s now thinking legacy and a job, and who’s gonna pay for that Obama Library in Chicago. Hey, liberal Hollywood and establishment gays sure do have lots of money and shouldn’t they give it to the First Gay President as opposed to the First President Who Really Hated the Country? And maybe with this little “evolution” the Obamas will be able to throw their own parties and still have people attend. […]
Me? I’ll sending over a Gracious Parting Gift on November 7th–a Disco Ball and CD of Studio 54?s Greatest Hits.
I believe he’s frantic to not have his legacy be the truth
this rings true I think… but also I think they’re cultivating a narrative that Romney’s victory was attributable to his gay marriage stance as opposed to his ideas about taxes for example… this way the narrative-obeisant National Soros Radio media can blunt any perception of a mandate Romney might have otherwise won
but lets not pretend that Team R isn’t just as whored out to the money and votes of anti-gay bigots
To win a mandate you actually have to be for something.
I think that this is just more wishing and hoping distilled in a projection of the desired result.
Also, my guess is Obama is thinking “wedge-issue,” not “legacy.”
Ernst:
Given the reaction of the AA church leaders thus far, Team Hopenchange is populated with fools if they think it’s a wedge issue that breaks in their direction. I think Darleen is onto something.
To win a mandate you actually have to be for something.
I know he’s signed a lot of silly pledges – surely he’s signed one about the spendings, no?
here is what his website says:
reading further you find this:
that’s cool he should talk about that more I think… but then there’s this
attrition my ass we need to lop off the dead tissue I think
zamoose, what’re the congregants of all those unhappy black ministers going to do? Vote for the cracker?
This is about depressing all those right thinking moderates and independents —keeping ’em too embarrassed about being associated with all those “anti-gay bigots” supporting Romney with their “money and votes” for them to actively support him themselves.
That doesn’t mean they haven’t miscalculated, however. Given that, among those who actually care enough to let this affect their vote one way or another, opinion is running 2-1 against Obama, they almost certainly have.
As soon as they realize that the white guy in blackface bamboozled them last time, what else are they going to do?
zamoose, what’re the congregants of all those unhappy black ministers going to do? Vote for the cracker?
I think there will be very little of this. But they may find that they have other thing to do on the first Tuesday in November.
Grover Obama?
I’m hoping this theory is not true, because we need Barky to melt down in epic fashion.
How Obama’s “evolving” works.
The heart of multiculturalism. All things, ideas, beliefs, are garments to be worn when wanted/needed and hung back up when another is more useful for the moment.
Maybe an Inverse Bradley effect – blacks overstating Obama votes in public/polls, but in that voting booth?
what’re the congregants of all those unhappy black ministers going to do? Vote for the cracker?
They could stay home. It’s happened before.
While I grant you that, if Obama’s portion of the black vote reverts to historic norms he’s going to be in trouble, let us not forget that the re-election of a black president is itself historic.
And Mitt Romney isn’t the kind of guy who’d countenance a whisper-campaign to remind black voters that Barak Obama’s blood is tainted.
He’s writing off the churchgoing black vote because they’re upset about the economy and blame him.
I don’t think they are thinking about winning this election any more, they are thinking about “legacy” and how they can define the GOP for the long term. Obama will be another Carter figure, sainted by the media.
Remember how the go-go 80’s were framed as a time of conspicuous consumption, when the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, and the seventies are suddenly remembered as this odd dream time of cool fashion and fun parents?
You just wait to see what they do to the aughts.
That’ll all depend on Mitt Romney, won’t it, LMC?
So he was for Disco Duck before he was against Disco Duck until Disco Duck paid off. Got it.
I don’t believe for a second that ‘they aren’t thinking about winning’.
These people are all about winning and getting their way.
Legacy? They’ll have it be whatever pleases them the most, and won’t give one flying damn what we think.
But it would much more reliably likely help him in 2016, when public opinion can be expected to have shifted further in favor of this social innovation.
In 2016, Public Opinion will have shifted further in favor of finding something to eat, and perhaps some sort of fuel to burn to keep its hovel warm overnight. Public Opinion will look back and weep bitter tears that it got so excited about something so trivial, just as the rug was about to get pulled out from beneath Public Opinion’s feet.
Huh.
Maybe one reason no civilization has supported same-sex marriage for long is that the gays really aren’t that into it.
Coaching?
Yeah, the guy ain’t a Christian. At least he doesn’t worship that actual Jewish fellow claiming to be the Son of God, through whom everything that was created was created through Him.
Obama, at best, regards Jesus as a prophet, like Danial or Muhammad. Of course Muhammad was the most recent*…
*I think Mormons claim prophets, but they are recognized only by Mormons.
This isn’t an evolution, this is just a return to reality.
Obama toed the Progressive line on gay marriage until he started his Presidential run. Then in the SC primary, as I recall, when he stood a real chance of Hillary actually stealing a significant part of the black vote, he came out against gay marriage in some church. I remember it being kind of a big deal at the time.
He stuck with it for awhile, just to avoid seeming too obvious, and now that the black vote is guaranteed he is reverting to his real self, albeit with qualifications.
If Hillary hadn’t been popular with southern blacks he would never have come out against gay marriage in the first place.
Obama is running his campaign (or whoever is running it) like this is 2008. We’ve seen with our own eyes and pocketbooks what his historicalness has done for us and are hard-pressed to be eager for more of the same.
Gay marriage is a straw he grabbed, because, like his historical blackness, it is a new idea for a president to endorse. It doesn’t matter that it’s a non-issue to more than half the country, it makes him “hip” to those still suffering from white guilt. Like most other things, he could personally give a shit about it. He’s more interested in being historic.
Team D is doing their damnedest to frame this as yet another “bigot” issue and when Obama gets trounced, they’ll blame it on the homophobic R’s who couldn’t grok how ahead of the curve the Wonce was. And gay marriage will be forgotten once again.
Adversity drives people back to basics. If you’re unemployed, depleting your savings, driving a hooptie and worried about the future, being down with “historic” shit is shoved to the back burner. People are starting to wake up, especially about all the energy we’re sitting on while paying ~$4 a gallon for gas we get from OPEC and it’s impact on the costs of everything we need and use.